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Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access! (store.steampowered.com)

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[-] numberfour002@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

I'm usually a patient gamer type. I think I got Hades in 2022 or 2023 on discount. I've also never purchased an early access game. But I'm seriously considering this one.

Main thing holding me back is that I just don't get to play games very much this time of year, and I probably won't have much time again until Fall.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago

If you really don’t have much time to game, I’d still say try to wait. It’ll be more fleshed out later on and perhaps out of EA(?).

[-] numberfour002@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Solid point. But I want it now. I guess I'm still holding out hope that I might have some time to play while I'm traveling in the next month or so.

Does the early access stuff sometimes stop being available? Like if I don't buy it soon, is it something that might go away until they're ready to do a full release?

[-] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If you don't have it already, maybe you should look at a steam deck in the future. I find it to be really good for times in my life when my time to play is limited, and a better source of unwinding than just mindlessly scrolling Lemmy or Instagram when I have a spare 15.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not aware of that happening, but I can't say for sure. Typically the games stay Early Access until they announce the official release.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I bought the game and played for roughly 3 hours. If you've seen their stream from the technical test, I got roughly as far in the meta-game as they did, but run-wise I got somewhere ~the middle of the third act. Right now I can see at least ~3-5 hours of unlockables I need to get resources for (and more is revealed after more runs/unlocks), and I haven't tried most new boons yet.

It's really good. There are three things I've noticed are missing (animations for one interactable in the hub world, portraits for 2 characters further in). Aside from that it feels similar quality-wise to the first game, which I last played a week ago, so it's still fresh in my mind.

I'm sure new content will get slower soon and halt in a couple of hours, but wow is it polished already. There's also an indication of a lot of additional content coming in the future, but that will have to wait for further patches.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Same bere, about 4 hrs on the record, and such a well polished Early Access games is hard to find. Apart from a few nuances, it plays like a charm.

Hades 1 was absolutely phenomenal, Hades 2 is, as far as I can see, will be too. The constant voice acting just adds so much to the game.

[-] EonNShadow@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Supergiant has the level of respect from me that early Blizzard had.

They have done nothing but release complete, solid games throughout their history. Everything in their library is at least an 8/10 and worth the money imo.

I have no reason to believe Hades 2 will be any different based on the tech test and the couple hours I played today.

[-] numberfour002@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So what you're saying is, I need to go ahead and take some vacation from work and real life and go ahead and dive head first into this game. Gotcha.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago

Supergiant is possibly the only company I would say do it for. All of their games are well polished and complete. They don't believe in dlc which is great. I'm someone that is still waiting for Spiderman 2 to go on discount before I buy it. Last full price game I bought was Hades surprisingly enough.

[-] numberfour002@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

You're such an enabler. I love it! Stop enabling me.

I know I'm not necessarily representative of the average gamer, but Hades is and was one of my favorite modern games. I feel like it's almost pointless to not buy this game as soon as I can, even if I don't have time to play it right this moment. Have you played it already at this point, and if so, what are your impressions?

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I played it for an hour, used a PS5 controller with zero issues. Feels like Hades but different. So far I like it a lot. I would recommend it if you liked the first one and I'm interested in how the story goes. To me, Supergiant excels in the story department. If you never played transistor, then get it. My personal favorite game ever. Up there with Zelda: Link between two past.

[-] Yrt@feddit.de 1 points 1 week ago

If you don't have much time to spare I would recommend to wait a little more. It would still be a big support if you buy it at full price in fall.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago

I'm curious if they improved the builds. Coming from Isaac I was not so hot on Hades if I'm gonna be honest. Got burned out fairly quickly after not even 40 hours because it was very repetitive and I never felt like I could really build towards anything during the runs, while the story seemed to crawl to a halt as well.

[-] decerian@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

How long did you play BoI for if getting burned out on Hades after 40hrs was fairly quick?

[-] blargerer@kbin.social 13 points 1 week ago

Not OP, but I have over 500 hours in a couple roguelikes and over a thousand in Slay The Spire. Depends on how good the game is at providing different experiences.

[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I'm starting to question my life a lot. I've played over 4k hours of BoI since the first version. I remember when people warned about WoW before I really gamed and how people were sinking their whole lives into it and I was like, "wow, can't imagine, that's crazy," and now I'm those people. I should go outside.

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

[-] kudos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Just be sure you're enjoying it and not actually suffering from anxiety and depression.

[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

In my case, little of column a, little of column b.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Boi was that for me. There was a time in my life it and civ dominated.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

I have 95 hours in basic Isaac and 235 hours in Rebirth (And I know that's also on the lower end of things for quite a few other Isaac players). I've not played Afterbirth+, let alone Repentance, since by the time I already kinda was so out of the game that I didn't want to re-learn it, but if I did that would likely add quite a few more hours onto it.

[-] heroname@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Re-learning is a lot easier with the externel item description mod. There's too much stuff now to keep track off anyway and it's quite well integrated.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

That does look good. Though, I'm not sure the DLC ever go on sale since they are only available through the package deal. The store page for them is kinda weird.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I completed Afterbirth and put it down for a few years, I've recently got Repentance and not only did I pick it up again pretty quickly but there is so much new stuff. I can't recommend it enough!

[-] Prox@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I'm pumped for this game but I will never pay $30 to beta test anything.

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

I am gonna buy it and think of it as a kick starter. I liked the first game well enough I’ll risk it. I won’t play it till release though.

[-] catalyst@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Played about 5 hours tonight and I’m loving it. I wasn’t sure how much content to expect for early access but this is more than I would have guessed. The combat feels really really good. Charging your abilities with mana starts to feel better once you build up some regen on it and you can use it more freely. It took me a minute to nail how to aim the long charged special but now it’s one of my faves to spam.

A few little surprises have happened that made me grin really big as a big Hades 1 fan as well. I did not play EA last time around but I decided this time I want to be a part of that experience and see how the game evolves.

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Oh I loved Hades so I’ll be getting this very soon. Maybe once I’m done with Sekiro this will be the next I’ll play.

At this point I’ll never finish Nier Replicant..

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Played it in the technical test and it ran really well and ofc, still oozing that Hades charm with every character

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Would love to play it, but the first one caused a major tendonitis flare up - I shouldn't risk it. The Poseidon dash boon was just too good, but that always meant a full 30 minute run of just hammering one button.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

With fully mapable controls on the deck I hope to avoid this, but as I get older I find myself needing more and more assistance XD

[-] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I just gave the autofire option a try. It works OK but not how I'd hoped. It only appears to work with the attack button right now. Instead of pressing attack repeatedly, you can hold it down to have the same effect. The drawback is that you can't do the magic infused attack (which is normally performed by holding the attack button). I was expecting to see an assignment key in the controls UI that would force the magic infused attack. This feels like a relatively trivial change for them to make and is probably the kind of thing they'd hope to reveal in an early access period.

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for checking! I'll keep an eye on it and may give it a try with the option enabled. I honestly never even checked whether or not Hades I has something like this, maybe I should do that do - I'm still a bit bothered I had to stop after only 4 successful runs.

[-] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I did see an option in the accessibility menu to auto fire when holding the button, but haven't tried it out. I'm not sure how that'll work with attacks that you can hold to empower. I'll try to give it a whirl tomorrow and report back.

[-] blackbarn@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Death to Chronos!

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Schelemeus - "Yeah, that!"

[-] vladmech@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Whelp, this decided my evening plans for me!

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Should be fun!

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I've been having a lot of fun! Doing a bunch! Dying a bunch as well!

I am looking forward to that whole region they say they're working on. Also hoping for more of a specific thing that might be a spoiler. I have no idea how to do spoiler text in connect.

[-] flux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Supergiant has my respect because they respect players avoiding all bs modern games try and nickel and dime players. I would encourage people to buy it if you will buy day one when it's released. They confirmed progress will carry over but also a lot of these indie development teams rely on presales things like this to keep the project revenue all good.